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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
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findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …
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This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on …. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out (by design) both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial … the specific forms of discrimination identified in our experiment. …
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find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001812
discrimination. To enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along … the gender dimension. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination against women. We provide evidence of two forms of …Understanding discrimination is key for designing policy interventions that promote equality in society. Economists …
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. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …-based gender discrimination. We document evidence of explicit discriminators-individuals who are willing to discriminate even when …This paper studies a key element of discrimination, namely when stereotypes translate into discriminatory actions …
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discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
experiment in which approximately 2,000 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … discrimination in distinct ways within particular contexts, which we relate to intersectional stereotyping and norms of gender …
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